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Dairy's Misfortune
Surprises Its Community

MABTON, Wash. -- If anybody knows about the health and sickness of animals, it is Bill Wavrin, whose dairy farm is the site of the first case of mad-cow disease in the U.S.

Mr. Wavrin not only runs Sunny Dene dairy here, with his brother Sid, but he is a veterinarian by training. In fact, he continues to take care of cows at other dairies in this area of central Washington, about 200 miles east of Seattle.